Are you shy around even your best friends and your family?

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Yes at times.

around extended family, yes, I am awkward and shy.

Yeah. I used to be too shy to tell my friends and family personal things about me or ask for something. I'm getting better, but I'm still quiet.

I'm shy around my family too. It's only around mt siblings.

Yes. I still have trouble knowing when to jump into the conversation. I find it hard to talk about stuff I am not interested in or do not know about.

I do tend to keep to myself around friends and at family gatherings, yet introduce me to someone famous, and you'd never know I had Asperger's I'm somewhat worried about this considering a desire to be associated with famous people is a symptom of Narcissistic Personality Disorder

I would rather say that I am quiet. With family I don't have to mask all the time, so I don't have to come up with random conversation topics when I have nothing to say. However, it's difficult for me to discuss more personal things with them because I feel judged. Sometimes it's easier to talk about serious staff with strangers. Once I am financially independent and live on my own I hope to be more close to them.

I never had a close realtionship with anyone including my own parents. I had aLOT of disabilities & issues that noone including my own family were fully aware of let alone understood. Most people who knew me as a kid were very critical of my issues including my peers, teachers, & even my own parents. It's kind of hard not to be withdrawn when you get treated like sh!t by everyone & it's worse when you open your mouth or do anything. The only people I ever felt close to & had a connection with were both my exes & my current girlfriend. I really don't want to be close to anyone else.

Shy means nervous and timid. So I'd say not shy, just aloof. With everyone.

The real measure of how close I am to someone is how much I tolerate them coming into my space and how much I tolerate them touching me. The only person I'm 100% comfortable with along those lines is my same age cousin I grew up with.

Yes.

Two things I am shy about doing in front of anybody:-

Singing
Farting

Otherwise, no I am not shy around my own family or friends.

I’m not shy at all. Just very introverted.

I'm not shy around anybody. If I dine with a world leader I would act quite normal. However I can totally understand shyness. My husband (who isn't an aspie) and my second son are both painfully shy. If I watched them doing something they would get self-conscious. I think shyness is rather cute, maybe a bit inefficient because people are taking extra time waiting for your responses. However those who are overly talkative waste time, too. Nobody is perfect.

I don't share all my problems with anybody, though. I don't like letting people know my weaknesses. Even though it probably didn't matter as I don't care what others think about me.

Not exactly shy, but certainly socially awkward. Just a couple of days ago I think I came across as incredibly cold to a friend of mine after she told me a fairly sad story, because I didn't make the appropriate body language or say the appropriate words.

No, I wouldn't call it shy.
My best friends are finely selected, so I can be myself next to them... and it doesn't mean we talk a lot. Once a friend visited us with his kids and for the whole time when our kids were playing together, we were sitting at a table, solving Slytherlink puzzles and not exchanging a word... my husband said it was creepy. But it wasn't shyness, it was just our mutual lack of need to interact We felt comfortable that way.

I didn't choose my family (except for the husband, of course) and I am... not shy but guarded next to them. I know they don't understand me, I am aware of their own issues and I am extremely careful not to trigger them or myself when we interact.